Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a person that was a new library without any application using it, whereas a interesting kde application might easier catch my

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages

2009-08-19 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a person that was a new library without any application

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a person that was a new library without any application using it, whereas a interesting kde application might easier catch

Re: RFS: nsis-2.45-1 [attn: pabs]

2009-08-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Thomas Gauglertho...@dadie.net wrote: Paul Wise (also known as pabs) offered me to take over the maintenance of the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS). Thanks a lot for accepting! Please let me know if I missed anything preventing the upload of this

RFS: esperanza (updated package, fixes RC bug)

2009-08-19 Thread Benjamin Drung
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4.0+git20090708-1 of my package esperanza. It builds these binary packages: esperanza - XMMS2 client which aims to be as feature-full and easy-to-use as The package is lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 444937,

RFS: xmms2-scrobbler (updated package, fixes RC bug)

2009-08-19 Thread Benjamin Drung
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.0-1 of my package xmms2-scrobbler. It builds these binary packages: xmms2-scrobbler - Audioscrobbler/Last.FM client for XMMS2 The upload would fix these bugs: 531323, 540844 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Re: RFS: xmms2-scrobbler (updated package, fixes RC bug)

2009-08-19 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Drung wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.0-1 of my package xmms2-scrobbler. It builds these binary packages: xmms2-scrobbler - Audioscrobbler/Last.FM client for XMMS2 The upload would fix these

Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear all, Motivated by some unfortunate trends seen in debian-mentors, I would like to raise (again) the question of wheter we are doing the right thing or not. Here is my plea: , | Attn Debian/Ubuntu/whatever developers and maintainers: | | It is with sadness that I see many NEW packages

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages

2009-08-19 Thread Ben Finney
Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: That's interesting, thank you for that perspective. What do you propose, then, for a maintainer who wants to get a new package into Debian, but that package requires one or more

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages

2009-08-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: That's interesting, thank you for that perspective. What do you propose, then, for a maintainer who wants to get a new package into

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages

2009-08-19 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:42:38 +1000 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au napsal(a): I obviously wasn't clear on this point: The library package is prepared *first*, to provide functionality needed by the dependent package. They're not ready for sponsorship together. What advice then?

RFS: mbuffer (new package)

2009-08-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the initial upload of my package mbuffer - a simple tool for buffering data streams for various purposes, including writing to block devices, testing throughput, and many others. * Package name: mbuffer Version : 20090628-1 Upstream

Re: [Fwd: Re: Denemo]

2009-08-19 Thread Pietro Battiston
Rogério's mail ([0]) gave me desire to insist. Now I'm being much more clearer and short: a (not so unpopular) package (Denemo) is unmaintained. It has bugs and a very old version packaged, which upstream strongly suggests to avoid. I repackaged it from scratch: last upstream version (and changes

Re: [Fwd: Re: Denemo]

2009-08-19 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pietro Battiston schrieb: Rogério's mail ([0]) gave me desire to insist. Now I'm being much more clearer and short: a (not so unpopular) package (Denemo) is unmaintained. It has bugs and a very old version packaged, which upstream strongly

RFS: concordance (updated package)

2009-08-19 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.21-3 of my package concordance. It builds these binary packages: concordance - Harmony remote configuration tool libconcord1 - libs for concordance, the Harmony remote configuration tool libconcord1-dev - development files for

Re: RFS: concordance (updated package)

2009-08-19 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre schrieb: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.21-3 of my package concordance. It builds these binary packages: concordance - Harmony remote configuration tool libconcord1 - libs for

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
Hello I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be addressed, especially the wish list. There are people who send bugs to request to be added or taken into consideration certain properties and functionality in the packages and maintainers are ignoring. Another thing is the

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leinier Cruz Salfran schrieb: Hello I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be addressed, especially the wish list. There are people who send bugs to request to be added or taken into consideration certain properties and

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Patrick Matthäi] thing is the system of new packages (debian-mentors, mentors.debian.net) .. I think that there could be a team dedicated to addressing this important task, same as the team dedicated to the kernel, the core packages, translation, among other important packages. I think you

Re: RFS: concordance (updated package)

2009-08-19 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Hi, Uploaded version 0.21-4. It re-changes the name of the 'python-' package to 'python-libconcord'. Sorry. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/concordance - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable

Re: RFS: codelite

2009-08-19 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 17,August,2009 04:46 AM, George Danchev wrote: --cut-- of codeblocks when packagers enter the scene, once again. Nonetheless, I promise to take a look at codelite too at some point, but can't promise to upload. JFTR: I don't think I will be even able to have a look at codelite

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
El mié, 19-08-2009 a las 20:07 +0200, Patrick Matthäi escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leinier Cruz Salfran schrieb: Hello I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be addressed, especially the wish list. There are people who send bugs to

packager tools

2009-08-19 Thread Don Raikes
Hi, In the process of reading the webapps-policy manual, I got to the last page where a couple of tools were refferenced. Namely debconf-common and webapps-common. I looked using aptitude and couldn't find anything that looks like webapps-common in the lenny or squeeze repositories. What is

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Leinier Cruz Salfran schrieb: El mié, 19-08-2009 a las 20:07 +0200, Patrick Matthäi escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leinier Cruz Salfran schrieb: Hello I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be addressed, especially the wish list. There are

Re: RFS: libsockets++

2009-08-19 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
hi thanks for review the package El mar, 18-08-2009 a las 23:30 +0200, Michal Čihař escribió: Hi Dne Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:44:08 + Leinier Cruz Salfran salfra...@ipigto.rimed.cu napsal(a): The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Re: RFS: libsockets++

2009-08-19 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:44:18 + Leinier Cruz Salfran salfra...@ipigto.rimed.cu napsal(a): El mar, 18-08-2009 a las 23:30 +0200, Michal Čihař escribió: Dne Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:44:08 + Just quick review: - you add change license stuff in debian diff without any explanation

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages

2009-08-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:42:38PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: That's interesting, thank you for that perspective. What do you propose, then, for a maintainer who wants to get a new package

Re: RFS: libsockets++

2009-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 1250657058.4171.63.ca...@salfrancl.ipigto.rimed.cu, Leinier Cruz Salfran wrote: - you add change license stuff in debian diff without any explanation I made one change in the license (debian/copyright): the openssl library exception did I made something wrong? i followed [1] The only

RFS: httest

2009-08-19 Thread Andy M Smith
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package httest. * Package name: httest Version : 1.12.0-1 Upstream Author : Christian Liesch ia97l...@sourceforge.net * URL : http://htt.sourceforce.net/ * License : Apache License Version 2.0 Section :

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages

2009-08-19 Thread Ben Finney
Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org writes: Make an RFS if you like, but don't get all bent out of shape and chuck a hissy fit on d-mentors if nobody does anything about it (because it's a library package -- hard to do right, and utterly pointless without an application to go with it). I think

RFS: xmms2 (updated package)

2009-08-19 Thread Benjamin Drung
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6DrMattDestruction-4 of my package xmms2. It builds these binary packages: libaudio-xmmsclient-perl - XMMS2 - Perl client library libxmmsclient++-dev - XMMS2 - client library for c++ - development files libxmmsclient++-glib-dev -

Re: RFS: xmms2-scrobbler (updated package, fixes RC bug)

2009-08-19 Thread Benjamin Drung
Harry Rickards wrote: Benjamin Drung wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.0-1 of my package xmms2-scrobbler. It builds these binary packages: xmms2-scrobbler - Audioscrobbler/Last.FM client for XMMS2 The upload would fix these bugs: 531323,

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages

2009-08-19 Thread Matt Trudel
Le jeudi 20 août 2009 à 09:01 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : I think part of the gap in understanding here may be that everyone is assuming that “library package” necessarily means a C-language library package. Does this qualitative “hard to do right” apply when the library package is implemented

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages

2009-08-19 Thread George Danchev
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:42:38PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: That's interesting, thank you for that perspective. What do you propose, then, for a maintainer who wants to get a new